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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Chris Willis
New York has included a “Buy-Now-Pay-Later Act” as part of its broader budget legislation for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Encapsulated in Article 14-B, the Act aims to regulate the burgeoning market of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) lenders but has raised concerns by its overreach and seemingly unequal treatment of national and state banks.
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1 week ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Chris Willis
New York has included a “Buy-Now-Pay-Later Act” as part of its broader budget legislation for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. Encapsulated in Article 14-B, the Act aims to regulate the burgeoning market of buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) lenders but has raised concerns by its overreach and seemingly unequal treatment of national and state banks.
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2 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Stefanie Jackman
On May 14, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a proposed rule to rescind amendments to its Procedures for Supervisory Designation Proceedings, originally adopted in 2022 and 2024. This proposal marks a significant shift in the Bureau’s approach to supervising nonbank entities. Public comments on the rescission will be accepted until June 13, 2025.
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3 weeks ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Stefanie Jackman |Jesse Silverman
On May 14, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a proposed rule to rescind amendments to its Procedures for Supervisory Designation Proceedings, originally adopted in 2022 and 2024. This proposal marks a significant shift in the Bureau’s approach to supervising nonbank entities. Public comments on the rescission will be accepted until June 13, 2025.
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4 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Ethan G. Ostroff
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) announced a significant shift in its enforcement priorities, choosing not to prioritize actions related to Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) loans under the Truth in Lending (Regulation Z). This decision aligns with the CFPB’s broader strategic adjustments outlined last month, and discussed here, which emphasize focusing resources on more pressing consumer threats, particularly those affecting servicemen, veterans, and small businesses.
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1 month ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Joseph Reilly |Caleb Rosenberg
Last month, the Texas legislature introduced two companion bills, S.B. No. 2677 and H.B. No. 700, to regulate sales-based commercial financing. For purposes of the proposed legislation, sales-based financing is a transaction that is repaid as a percentage of sales or revenue, or according to a fixed payment mechanism that provides for a reconciliation process to adjust payments to an amount that is a percentage of sales or revenue.
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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Joseph Reilly
Last month, the Texas legislature introduced two companion bills, S.B. No. 2677 and H.B. No. 700, to regulate sales-based commercial financing. For purposes of the proposed legislation, sales-based financing is a transaction that is repaid as a percentage of sales or revenue, or according to a fixed payment mechanism that provides for a reconciliation process to adjust payments to an amount that is a percentage of sales or revenue.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | David Anthony |Mark J. Furletti |Stefanie Jackman
On February 4, Senators Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at immediately capping credit card interest rates at 10% for a period of five years. This initiative follows a recent Forbes report indicating that the average credit card interest rate stands at 28.6%. According to Senators Sanders’ press release, American households collectively hold a record-breaking $1.17 trillion in credit card debt.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti |Taylor Gess
On January 10, the Alaska Legislature introduced Senate Bill 39 that aims to amend the state’s Small Loan Act. This proposed legislation seeks to implement significant changes, including the introduction of a predominant economic interest test, the repeal of Alaska’s payday loan law, and amending the maximum interest rate that can be charged on loans up to $25,000. Key Provisions of the Bill Predominant Economic Interest Test.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Keith Barnett |Jason Cover |Mark J. Furletti
As part of a flurry of last minute regulatory activity by the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau), on January 15, the CFPB published an advisory opinion in the Federal Register rescinding a previous advisory opinion which the Bureau issued during the first Trump administration in November 2020.
